The Committee to Incorporate Sandy Oaks (CISO) represents the small area in southeast Bexar county. Though planning officials were prepared to recommend that San Antonio deny CISO's initial proposal — which encompassed an area of 9.2 square miles and about 5,250 inhabitants — CISO representatives chose to accept a continuance until the next City Council meeting Aug. 29. In the interim, they will work with San Antonio reach a compromise.

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Failure to reach a deal by Aug. 29, according to San Antonio's community development assistant director Christopher Looney, means Sandy Oaks won't meet Bexar County's 60-day deadline to file for general elections in November, pushing any chance of incorporation back to May 2014.

“We are prepared to accept some part of their original plan,” explained Looney, who said he intends to negotiations with CISO Monday. “We just can't lose much of the work we've put into the area, like our efforts to dissolve City South.”

“We're thinking in broader terms than losing a Burger King or a fireworks stand,” Looney added. “We're thinking about the next Halliburton, the next shale (development) that might spring in part of the area they are proposing.”

CISO vice chair Jim Clement said his board is also afraid of losing vital revenue which will provide long-awaited services to Sandy Oaks.

“We're tired of being patronized,” Clement said. “Though we are prepared to reduce the size (of our proposal) to about four square miles, we've been waiting for the city to address our proposal for a year now … and we can't wait longer than the next (city) council meeting.”

“One way or another, we'll get this done,” he added. “We can do a number of things, including filing a suit against the city.”